Oh my! I missed this one: GOP Awards Its 2020 Convention to the Only City That Sorta Kinda Wanted It

[demmiblue]

Amusing that Trump is now threatening to pull the Republican National Convention from Charlotte.

Apparently, it was the only city that submitted a bid.

Good luck finding a new location with three months to go.

Link to tweet

But when you’re talking about the recoronation of the candidacy of the 45th president of the United States, the usual concerns are significantly magnified, particularly for the usually Democratic big-city leaders who view association with Trump as a moral as well as a political risk. After all, Cleveland successfully bid for the 2016 GOP convention figuring that event would launch the general-election campaign of some conventional schlub like Jeb Bush, not the second coming of Attila the Hun. So the GOP hasn’t exactly been rushed with suitors for the next event, as Adam Raymond explained in May:

Among the cities to back away from the RNC are Philadelphia, Nashville, and San Antonio, where the mayor explained in a recent op-ed that “national political conventions aren’t the great deal for cities that the parties and their advocates want us to believe.” But it wasn’t just a financial decision. In a statement, Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales said that inviting the RNC to San Antonio would be at odds with the city’s dedication to “cultural inclusion.”

Las Vegas was in the running for the convention, but local Republican officials, who were pushing the bid, appear to have been overruled by the city’s Convention and Visitors Authority.

That leaves Charlotte, which hosted the 2012 Democratic National Convention, as the only city publicly pursuing the convention

Today the Republican National Committee hastily took up Charlotte on its offer before it evaporated. That nearly happened earlier this week, when protestors flooded a meeting of the Charlotte City Council, which subsequently approved a tentative contract to host the convention by a narrow 6-5 vote. But as the New York Times reports, it’s not like the host city is united or excited about what they are undertaking:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/gop-awards-2020-convention-to-charlotte-the-only-bidder.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. No body wants these people. No body. What are the chances that a lot of them are going to be sick

w/ the coronavirus (or worse)?

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Ooooh, ooooh, pick me, pick me!!!!!!!

We wanna' be this summer's yuuuuuge, bigly COVID-19 HOT SPOT!

[5X]

3. dotard is complaining about NC so he can cancel

but not have to blame the virus. CYA time.

[ibegurpard]

7. Yep

That's the game.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[mnhtnbb]

5. He wants to pull it before our Dem Governor cancels it

due to putting residents at risk for coronavirus.

[Midnight Writer]

6. I bet Trump owns a few venues where they can all get together and grab some pussies.